Tag Archives: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror

Christmas With Mother Goose

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Publisher: Childrens Pr

Children’s Christmas Woodbook

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Publisher: Barrons Juveniles

Goldilocks at the Bears Christmas

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Gunderson
Publisher: Blem Pubns

Goofball Malone: Smell That Clue! (All Aboard Reading)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Stephen Mooser
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

The Hunchback Assignments

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Arthur Slade
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books

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A gripping new series combines Steampunk, spying, and a fantastic Victorian London.
The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show. Modo is a hunchback with an amazing ability to transform his appearance, and Mr. Socrates raises him in isolation as an agent [...]

Transformers Mix & Match

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: David Roe
Publisher: Reader’s Digest

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Inspired by the Transformers movie, Prime Directive, this colorful book lets kids create countless character combinations by simply flipping the die-cut panels on each page. Imagine a Transformer that has Optimus Prime’s head, Bumblebee’s body, and Jazz’s legs. That’s just one of more than 200 unique Transformers [...]

The Sable Quean (Redwall)

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel

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He appears out of thin air and vanishes just as quickly. He is Zwilt the Shade, and he is evil. Yet he is no match for his ruler, Vilaya the Sable Quean. Along with their hordes of vermin, these two have devised a plan to conquer Redwall Abbey. [...]

Math Advantage Grade 5

Author: Harcourt Brace Publishing
Publisher: Harcourt School Publishers

Who Framed Art Decco?

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Margaret Benoit
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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What else is there for a hard-boiled, off-duty detective to do on a rainy Saturday but visit the local art gallery to see the works of renowned sculptor Bern T. Sienna and the painter Forrest Greene? Alas, Detective Angel Cordoni’s day off becomes an opportunity for creative forensics. [...]

Math Advantage Grade 6

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Harcourt Brace Publishing
Publisher: Harcourt School Publishers

Classic Starts: The Time Machine (Classic Starts Series)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: Sterling

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H. G. Wells’s sobering, thought-provoking novel is one of the greatest works of science fiction ever created—and as powerful today as when it was written. After inventing a machine that moves through time, the Traveler leaves Victorian London and goes far, far into the future. At first, [...]

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Rating: (652 reviews)
Author: C.S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Product Description
Now considered a classic, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is C.S. Lewis’s second book of The Chronicles of Narnia, which has captured the imaginations of children for several generations.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)

Rating: (5191 reviews)
Author: J. K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

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Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that’s supposed to take place at [...]

The Magician’s Nephew

Rating: (270 reviews)
Author: C.S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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In the first book of The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis shows us how it all began — the glorious birth of Narnia at the hand of its unforgettable King. It is followed by six more books that collectively tell the history of a world that has [...]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)

Rating: (2636 reviews)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

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During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents’ deaths. Amazon.com Review
For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who’s forced to spend [...]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)

Rating: (3670 reviews)
Author: J. K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.

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We could tell you, but then we’d have to Obliviate your memory. Amazon.com Review
The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated, arguably over-hyped Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has arrived, and the question on the minds of kids, adults, fans, and skeptics alike is, “Is it worth the hype?” [...]

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Rating: (151 reviews)
Author: C.S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Product Description
Book five of The Chronicles of Narnia continues the saga of C.S. Lewis’s beloved land of fantastic creatures and unlikely heroes. Readers of any age will be entranced as the crew of the Dawn Treader approaches the “Worlds End.”
Amazon.com Review
The BBC Radio production of The Voyage of [...]

Baby-Sitters’ Christmas Chiller (Baby-Sitters Club Super Mystery)

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Apple (Scholastic)

Littles Have A Merry Christmas (Littles First Readers)

Author: John Peterson
Publisher: Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval

Product Description
It’s almost Christmas, and all the Littles are full of good cheer…all except Uncle Nick. Uncle Nick just moved in. It was time for him to rest after thirty years of fighting mice in Trash City. Uncle Nick likes his new home, but he misses all [...]

Magic Tree House #29: Christmas in Camelot (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
The Magic Tree House series has become a staple for inspiring kids to read. Christmas in Camelot is a very special Magic Tree House book. Here, author Mary Pope Osborne uses the literary skills for which she’s known to create a longer, [...]

Eragon

Rating: (2897 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of [...]

Evermore: The Immortals

Rating: (299 reviews)
Author: Alyson Noël
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

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Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras, hear people’s thoughts, and know a person’s life story by touch.   Going out of her way to shield herself from human contact to suppress her abilities has branded her as a [...]

The Sorcerer of the North: Book Five

Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Puffin

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Several years have passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, first met, and Will is finally a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepy-boring, even-until Lord Syron, master of a castle far in the north, is struck down by [...]

City of Glass

Rating: (174 reviews)
Author: Cassandra Clare
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters — never mind that enter-ing the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that [...]

Carpe Corpus

Rating: (41 reviews)
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet

Product Description
In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace-until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He-s kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is [...]

The Graveyard Book

Rating: (386 reviews)
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Product Description
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.
He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.
There [...]

Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel

Rating: (151 reviews)
Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill

Product Description
Is Rose’s fate to kill the person she loves most? It’s springtime at St. Vladimir’s Academy, and Rose Hathaway is this close to graduation. Since Mason’s death, Rose hasn’t been feeling quite right. She has dark flashbacks in the middle of practice, can’t concentrate in class, and has [...]

Fate (My Blood Approves series)

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Amanda Hocking
Publisher:

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Fate – the second installment in the My Blood Approves series…
Alice Bonham thinks she’s finally found a balance in her life between the supernatural and real life with her brother Milo. Jack – her sorta vampire boyfriend – keeps her at arm’s length to keep her safe. As for [...]

Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel

Rating: (192 reviews)
Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill

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The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir’s Academy was the deadliest ever in the school’s history, claiming the lives of Moroi students, teachers, and guardians alike. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them . . . including Dimitri.
He’d rather die than be one of [...]

Brisingr Deluxe Edition

Rating: (677 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Experience the bestselling phenomenon of Brisingr, now in a deluxe edition!
This deluxe edition includes deleted scenes, never-before-seen art by the author, and a guide to dwarf runes.
 
Following the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have [...]

The Lord of the Rings

Rating: (1504 reviews)
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Product Description
For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkien’s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written. No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing [...]

Raising Dragons (Dragons in Our Midst, Book 1)

Rating: (92 reviews)
Author: Bryan Davis
Publisher: Living Ink Books

Product Description
Modern fantasy novel that inspires young people to pursue faith, courage, and love, to dig deep within to find their God-given strengths no matter how difficult the circumstances.

Harry Potter y la cámara secreta

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: J. K. Rowling
Publisher: Lectorum Publications

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Harry está en su segundo año en la escuela de magia y hechicería. En este episodio Harry tiene que defender la escuela de los malvados que pretenden destruirla. Se tiene que enfrentar con arañas gigantes, serpientes encantadas y fantasmas enfurecidos.

Fablehaven

Rating: (182 reviews)
Author: Brandon Mull
Publisher: Deseret Book Company

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“The dialogue snaps and sizzles. . . like Harry Potter, Fablehaven can be read aloud in a family with as much pleasure for grownups as for children. . . Do yourself a favor, and don’t miss the first novel by a writer who is clearly going [...]

Ink Exchange

Rating: (119 reviews)
Author: Melissa Marr
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Product Description
Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey together. If he [...]

The Dead Girls’ Dance (Morganville Vampires, Book 2)

Rating: (59 reviews)
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet

Product Description
Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting [...]

Flutter (My Blood Approves series)

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Amanda Hocking
Publisher:

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Flutter – the third book in the My Blood Approves series…
Being undead doesn’t make life any easier for Alice Bonham.
Her younger brother’s love life is heating up, while hers is… more complicated. Mae is falling apart, her best friend Jane is addicted to vampire bites, and if Alice doesn’t [...]

Spells (Aprilynne Pike)

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Aprilynne Pike
Publisher: HarperTeen

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“I can’t just storm in and proclaim my intentions. I can’t ‘steal’ you away. I just have to wait and hope that, someday, you’ll ask,” Tamani said.
“And if I don’t?” Laurel said, her voice barely above a whisper.
“Then I guess I’ll be waiting forever.”

Although Laurel has come to [...]

Monster

Rating: (709 reviews)
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Product Description
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I’ll call it what the lady who is the [...]

The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1)

Rating: (359 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it’s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the “flock”–Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel–are just like ordinary kids–only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like [...]

Glass Houses (Morganville Vampires, Book 1)

Rating: (137 reviews)
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet

Product Description
From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas.
Just don’t stay out after dark.
College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school’s social scene: somewhere less [...]

The Magician

Rating: (93 reviews)
Author: Michael Scott
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Product Description
After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenell is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with enemies. Nicollo Machiavelli, immortal author [...]

The City of Ember (Books of Ember)

Rating: (498 reviews)
Author: Jeanne DuPrau
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
NOW A MAJOR motion picture starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan, and Harry Treadaway! This tie-in edition of The City of Ember features a movie-art cover and an 8-page photo insert. Jeanne DuPrau’s instant classic tells the story of the great, underground city of Ember, [...]

The Black Stallion’s Ghost (Black Stallion)

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Walter Farley
Publisher: Yearling

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While riding the Black in the Everglades one day, Alec meets a man astride a ghostly gray mare. Alec’s fascination with the man turns to fear as he realizes the man is dangerously close to insanity. Soon Alec and the Black are caught up in a deadly chase [...]

Vampire Breath (Goosebumps)

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: R L Stine
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Product Description
Tough. That’s Freddy Martinez and his friend, Cara. They’re not afraid of anything. But that was before they went exploring in Freddy’s basement. Before they found the secret room. Before they found the bottle of Vampire Breath.Poor Freddy and Cara. They should have never opened that [...]

James And The Giant Peach

Rating: (226 reviews)
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Roald Dahl was a champion of the underdog and all things little–in this case, an orphaned boy oppressed by two nasty, self-centered aunts. How James escapes his miserable life with the horrible aunts and becomes a hero is a Dahlicious fantasy of the highest [...]

Marvel Encyclopedia

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Tom DeFalco
Publisher: DK Publishing

Product Description
Celebrate 70 years of Marvel Comics with The Marvel Encyclopedia! Fully updated with new images and text, this one-volume encyclopedia contains more than 1,000 of Marvel’s greatest-from well-known characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk and Wolverine to lesser known heroes and villains.
An essential book both for new [...]

The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials

Rating: (915 reviews)
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Product Description
The Amber Spyglass brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume of His Dark Materials as the most powerful of the trilogy.
Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. [...]

Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, Book 6)

Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill

Product Description
The astonishing final novel in Richelle Mead’s epic series!
Murder. Love. Jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice. Now, with Rose on trial for her life and Lissa first in line for the Royal Throne, nothing will ever be the same between them.

Magic Tree House #35: Night of the New Magicians

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Merlin sends Jack and Annie on a mysterious mission to Paris, France, over a 100 years ago. There they must find four magicians and give them an urgent message from Merlin himself. When Jack and Annie land in Paris, they make their [...]